Visceral Games shut down by EA, Amy Hennig's Star Wars game cancelled - LOL new game cancelled too

[ColonelTeacup]

What's funny is that even a complete retard could see that the easiest way to make money off the Star Wars franchise is to just make a new KOTOR game and reboot/remake the old X-Wing/TIE Fighter games.

This procedurally generated trainwreck is rather amusing to watch, though.

Or a Jedi Academy game.

 

[vonAchdorf]

I wanted to post something about how Star Wars isn't a license to print money anymore, and how EA would rather have had a Marvel license instead.

But actually, I think you could go further than that. I think licensing, even if you have access to the most popular IPs, is increasingly out of step with the modern AAA gaming industry. If you're as big as EA, it's something that just limits you.

"Let's make Fortnite, but with the Star Wars IP so everybody has lightsabers!" <-- The industry has learned that nobody wants this.

That has only become an issue, because AAA publishes develop fewer games so they don't have room for a mid-size title. Add the EA idiocy strategy, that they only want service titles, and there's no way that they make a title like a Star Wars God of War / Uncharted, which "only" sells 5 million copies.

No one wants a Star Wars Fortnite, because everyone plays Fortnite already and would rather unlock a SW character. But people would buy a well made "Star Wars Uncharted". But for EA a success on the scale of Uncharted or nuGoW is apparently too small to fit in their publishing / development strategy.

 

[Kem0sabe]

 

[fantadomat]

Buahahahahahahahaha Biowaste's death confirmed!

 

[BING XI LAO]

You know who's worse thann EA? Their customers. Only when the spergs and high functioning autists rise up against the normies can the curse of Decline be lifted.